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About Partnership Gwinnett:
Partnership Gwinnett works to attract and retain jobs, cultivate capital investment, support educational institutions, foster workforce development and contribute to the exceptional quality of life found in Gwinnett County.
About this role:
In this role, you will coordinate the planning, logistics, and execution of various events, ranging from corporate meetings to signature events. This involves working closely with vendors, coordinating event budgets, and assisting on-site event operations to ensure everything runs smoothly.
The ideal candidate is a highly organized individual with excellent communication skills, capable of juggling multiple projects while keeping a sharp focus on detail. You should have a passion for creating memorable experiences and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. You will work with an amazing and supportive team of professionals.
Day-to-day duties:
- Research venues and vendors for events such as conferences or corporate meetings
- Coordinate with vendors and suppliers, such as caterers, audiovisual, etc.
- Assist in the coordination of event budgets
- Send invitations to attendees, track RSVPs, and handle registration details
- As needed, create graphics for upcoming events or coordinate with the graphic design team to create visuals
- Draft and send newsletters, promotional emails and other communications to a targeted audience
- Assist with the coordination of committee meetings, taskforces and council meetings
- Maintain department event calendar
- Assist in social media management – scheduling, posting, and boosting as needed
- Perform related duties as assigned
Must-haves:
- Work efficiently and collaboratively with an amazing group – we’re a team and sometimes it’s “all hands-on deck” to get the job done!
- Be a good person – culture is very important to us!
- We are in the people business – it is imperative that you can develop and maintain relationships!
- Concierge-level service – we go the extra mile in all things we do!
- Communication – In person, by email, by letter, on the phone, verbally and non-verbally—you will need superior communication skills to be successful in this role.
- Professionalism – we hold ourselves to a higher standard.
- Juggling – you must be able to multitask – we don’t let the ball drop!
- Enthusiasm – this is a very fast-paced place to work. You must be high energy when appropriate.
- Fun – let’s be honest…we get to do some pretty cool things…let’s have fun while doing it!
A bachelor’s degree is preferred, but not required, with major course work in marketing, business administration, community development, communications, or related field is required. Knowledge of the community is a plus. Three years of related experience is preferred.
Partnership Gwinnett is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in E-Verify. All employment is contingent on the successful completion of a drug screen and background check. Qualified candidates interested in this professional opportunity should complete the form below and email a cover letter and resume to Rebecca Reis at RReis@PartnershipGwinnett.com with the subject line: Marketing and Events Coordinator
Vice President, Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development
Jan 6, 2025
Full Time
About Partnership Gwinnett:
Partnership Gwinnett works to attract and retain jobs, cultivate capital investment, support educational institutions, foster workforce development and contribute to the exceptional quality of life found in Gwinnett County.
About the Role:
The Vice President, Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development will be a proven, highly-skilled leader in the field, with extensive experience implementing comprehensive community and economic development strategies and bringing diverse local leaders and constituencies together in a public-private partnership for sustainable success. The VP will demonstrate the highest levels of integrity, honesty, and openness to create strong and enduring relationships with key leaders in the local, county, state and federal arenas.
Specific responsibilities of the VP will likely include:
- Effective implementation of the Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development strategy, including carrying out the current five-year work strategy into annual work programs.
- Understanding the competitive dynamics of best practice community and economic development programs, including an equal focus on competitiveness dynamics, existing business retention/expansion, nurturing small businesses and entrepreneurs, and effective external marketing and recruitment.
- Working closely with representatives of Gwinnett County, Gwinnett’s cities, Gwinnett CIDs and economic development departments, local chambers of commerce & business associations, and other relevant organizations and groups such as the ARC and GDEcD, to advance the Strategy and Implementation Plan.
- Serving as a key advocate and partner for community-focused efforts in the arenas of quality of life, education and workforce, land use, transportation, infrastructure capacity development, redevelopment strategies and community sustainability practices.
- Creating and effectively leading a focused and dedicated team that is committed to the development and execution of highly effective programs and partnerships.
- Serving as the organization’s principal spokesperson to ensure that a strong communications effort is in place that meets internal and external needs.
- Monitoring and evaluating on a regular basis the organization’s financial status and taking appropriate actions to ensure its fiscal sustainability as the key revenue generator.
- Serving as a tireless promoter of the Gwinnett-county, its population, assets and businesses to local, statewide, national, and international audiences.
- Advocating to local, county, statewide, and federal governments for projects and investments that further Gwinnett’s regional competitive capacity.
The ideal candidate for the VP position will be:
- A strong leader and skilled manager with a proven, measurable track record of success in highly regarded economic development nonprofit, private sector or governmental organizations. This individual must be able to clearly demonstrate how those organizations prospered as a result of his or her leadership and direction.
- Experience in a mission-driven organization with a scope and complexity that is commensurate with Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development.
- An individual with the ability to transfer previous experience into the current community and economic development challenges in Gwinnett.
- A proven leader with a successful track record in building and developing a successful staff, an active/involved Senior board and volunteers.
- An individual with experience dealing with complex economic, political, and financial issues and the sensitivity to function in the role of a leader in those issue areas.
- A visionary with a demonstrated ability to think outside the box and develop creative approaches to complex issues.
- An individual with extensive knowledge of public policy dynamics, particularly technological, political, and economic challenges for today’s modern communities.
Desired Education, Skills, and Experience:
- College degree preferred;
- 10+ years of relevant work experience required;
- Private Sector Leadership preferred, but not required;
- Skills include strategy development and implementation, financial analyses and budgeting, and impact assessment/evaluation;
- Exceptional interpersonal, writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to serve as an external voice for the work of the Partnership Gwinnett initiative;
- Excellent analytical skills;
- Deep understanding of urban/suburban economic development issues preferred;
- Demonstrated leadership and proven ability to lead a complex, cross-sector, multi-dimensional, results-oriented agenda;
- Demonstrated success managing teams, including the supervision, development and evaluation of staff and consultants;
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a demanding environment;
- Proven track record of setting Key Performance Indicators for self, team and organization;
- Proven track record of exceeding budget goals;
- Professional certification (CEcD) would be a plus, but not required.
Personal Characteristics:
- A creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills;
- Ability to work under the pressure of tight deadlines;
- Ability to make decisions about how to manage and organize own and team’s workload quickly and effectively;
- Participative work style; ability to receive feedback; and
- Mature interpersonal style, ability to interact well with a diverse range of people
Partnership Gwinnett is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in E-Verify. All employment is contingent on the successful completion of a drug screen and background check. Qualified candidates interested in this professional opportunity should complete the form below and email a cover letter and resume to Nick Masino at Nick@GwinnettChamber.org with the subject line: Vice President, Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development.
About Partnership Gwinnett:
Partnership Gwinnett is a dynamic organization dedicated to attracting and retaining jobs, fostering capital investment, supporting educational institutions, promoting workforce development, and contributing to the outstanding quality of life in Gwinnett County.Job Description:
This position works with the VP of Economic Development to execute Partnership Gwinnett’s research strategies.Job Responsibilities:
- Find and analyze unique data that differentiates Gwinnett for marketing initiatives including the Partnership Gwinnett website, presentations, social media, annual report, projects and RFIs.
- Provide data and prepare monthly and quarterly reports for the economic development team.
- Track Partnership Gwinnett’s KPIs and community indicators.
- Work closely with Research Interns to ensure effective execution of research requests.
- Help maintain and manage all Partnership Gwinnett databases.
- Manage the Research Credit program and provide relevant and timely data to Partnership Gwinnett’s top investors and key stakeholders.
- Develop positive working relationship with community partners including the research teams at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, regional partners and with the research teams that operate within each utility economic development office.
- Provide assistance for redevelopment programs and initiatives including but not limited to the Redevelopment Council, Metro Atlanta Redevelopment Summit, and Peer Tour.
- Assist with the tracking and reporting phases of Georgia Regional Economic Business Assistance grants.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access
- Working knowledge of analytical and statistical tools to analyze and interpret data
- Must be a strategic thinker with strong organizational and analytical skills
- Must be flexible regarding job responsibilities and ability to work as a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to multi-task and deliver on tight deadlines
- Ability to design and execute multiple work demands
- Excellent written, grammatical, and oral communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job, including but not limited to Public Administration, Political Science, Urban Planning, Business Management, Marketing, etc.
Questions:
For questions, email info@partnershipgwinnett.com with the subject line: Research Manager Apply NowAbout Partnership Gwinnett:
Partnership Gwinnett is a dynamic organization dedicated to attracting and retaining jobs, fostering capital investment, supporting educational institutions, promoting workforce development, and contributing to the outstanding quality of life in Gwinnett County.
About this role:
The Manager, Workforce Solutions will lead the implementation of our Talent Development strategy. With a focus on our five target sectors, they support local workforce development efforts and advance solutions that solve workforce challenges for Gwinnett businesses through connectivity, communication, and collaboration. In addition, the Manager, Workforce Solutions partners with the business development team to provide support on recruitment and retention projects by connecting Gwinnett County businesses to local, State, and Federal workforce partners. Their work will be centered around four strategic priorities:
- Maintain a talent council to continue aligning education and training offerings to business needs and create a lifelong learning experience for people of all ages
- Continue convening K-20 educational institutions and target sector businesses to ensure alignment and identify opportunities for these communities to support their respective success
- Strengthen workforce-related resources, including data and training, provided to local businesses
- Establish a talent retention, return, and attraction campaign that highlights career and living opportunities in Gwinnett County and helps grow the skilled working-age population
Day-to-day duties:
- Lead and implement Partnership Gwinnett’s talent development strategy with the guiding principles of inclusion, innovation, and collaboration
- Provide support to recruitment and retention projects by leveraging programs that link new and existing Gwinnett County businesses with the local, state, and federal workforce ecosystems
- Develop and maintain relationships with key workforce development intermediaries, organizations, partnerships, and taskforces, and committees within Gwinnett County and the Metro Atlanta region
- Develop and maintain strong working knowledge, and relationships with, Gwinnett County businesses and industries
- Create, cultivate, and steward cross-sector business education partnerships that fill knowledge and connectivity gaps in the community and improve alignment and collaboration with a focus on talent attraction, training, and development
- Implement and maintain sector-based employer collaboratives to connect business leaders, identify employer needs, high-demand industries, and skills, to initiate programs that connect talent from education/training partners with employers
- Define, update, and track appropriate benchmarks and key performance indicators to ensure that goals and objectives are met and prepare regular updates on progress-to-goals to be used for the quarterly report card, investor meetings, and annual report
- Identify, engage, and enlist organizations that develop and support diverse talent pipelines and integrate them into Gwinnett’s workforce ecosystem to increase equity and inclusion
- Collaborate with the marketing and communications team to create a strategy for content and execution of communications that, promote, and disseminate workforce-related data, updates, tools, resources, and workforce initiatives
- Define and communicate qualitative and quantitative workforce-related research and data to be distributed to businesses and workforce partners on a periodic basis via roundtables, quarterly forums, websites, newsletters, social media, etc.
- Collaborate with the leadership, marketing and communications, and business development teams and other stakeholders to implement a talent attraction, retention, and return website and marketing campaign
- Plan and execute programing for business community and workforce partners
- Perform related duties as assigned
Must have’s:
- Strong knowledge and experience with secondary and post-secondary educational institutions
- Comprehensive knowledge of sales/marketing/communication strategies and tactics
- Strong software skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, internet research and sales/contact management programs
- Work efficiently and collaboratively with an amazing group – we’re a team and sometimes it’s “all hands on deck” to get the job done
- Ability to execute tasks within a defined timeline – we’re all about deadlines
- Be a good person – culture is very important to us
- Excellent interpersonal skills: we are in the people business – it is imperative that you can develop and maintain relationships
- Concierge-level service – we go the extra mile in all things we do
- Communication – in person, by email, on the phone, verbally and non-verbally—you will need superior communication skills to be successful in this role
- Professionalism – we hold ourselves to a higher standard
- Juggling – you must be able to multitask – we don’t let the ball drop
- Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity
- Enthusiasm – this is a very fast-paced place to work. You must be high energy when appropriate
- Fun – let’s be honest…we get to do some pretty cool things…let’s have fun while doing it
Education Required:
Bachelor’s degree with course work in marketing, business administration, communications, or related field required. Knowledge of the community is a plus. Three years of related experience.
Partnership Gwinnett is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in E-Verify. All employment is contingent on the successful completion of a drug screen and background check.
Questions:
For questions, email info@partnershipgwinnett.com with the subject line: Manager, Workforce Solutions.
